Given name
Denegils
“Dane”·“hostage”
Denegils is a masculine given name from Proto-West Germanic. It is used in Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Denegils is built from elements meaning “Dane” and “hostage”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-West Germanic *Danigīsl, built from Proto-West Germanic *Dani + *gīsl (“hostage”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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